Engraved by W.Wallis, from a Drawing by H.bastineau, for the Excursions through Storey LOSELEY HOUSE, The Seat of M.Molyneux Esq SURREY. Pub Pec 11819.buongman & Paternoster tow. Spital, is a fine circular course for horse-races; where a plate of 100 guineas, given by William III., and three subscription plates, are annually run for in Whitsun week. On Katharine hill, about a mile from Guildford, and near the road to Godalming, but in the parish of St. Nicholas, is a ruin called St. Katharine's Chapel, which is worthy of inspection. The length of this edifice, within the walls, is 45 feet, 6 inches; the breadth 20 feet, 6 inches, and the walls themselves rather less than three feet in thickness. On each side were two small upright buttresses, terminating in pinnacles or finials rising above the roof; in the intervals between which were the windows, three on each side, with a circular aperture over that in the middle of the south side. The principal window was at the east end, and there was another over the west door. Besides this entrance on the west, there were two smaller, one on each side; and, at the north-west angle, a turret, of a circular form within, and about five feet and an half in diameter; which might have served for the belfry, as well as for the staircase leading to the roof. The walls were of ordinary stone; but the coins, finials, and pointed arches of the doors and windows, for the most part of chalk. The foundation of this chapel is ascribed, but without any positive information on the subject, to Henry II., who, it is said, erected it for the tenants on his manor of Ertindon. At what time it fell into disuse, or how long it has been in its present ruinous condition, is not known. Some years since, with a design to prevent the arches of the doors and windows from falling in, but not with any view to its re-conversion to a place of worship, it underwent some repairs at the expense of the late Robert Austen, Esq., of Shalford. Also in this parish, and about two miles south-west of Guildford, in the midst of a beautiful park, stands Loseley House, the property of James More Molyneux, |